Reading George Stewart in Antarctica.

In my mid-teens, when I first showed an interest in writing, my mother would occasionally recommend two novels by George R. Stewart, an old English professor of hers at Cal. One was called Fire and the other Storm...

A California crown for Lord Byron.

One late July day in 1870, two poets boarded a side-wheel ferry at Meiggs Wharf in San Francisco. The Princess plowed six miles across the mouth of the bay to what was then the village of "Saucelito,"...

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The media today—newspapers, books, and, yes, magazines—are in a bewildering situation. People are getting information in new ways...

Recalling Harriet Lane Levy’s unusual, eclectic life.

The news of a neighbor's betrothal was not greeted with joy in the household of Benjamin and Yetta Levy. Far from it...